Bangs!

Take a look at this woman. She is a runway model on the catwalk, she has been perfectly styled to fit the designer's theme, hence, her decision to wear bangs is an important and carefully constructed one.

This weekend I was out at a bar (shocking, I know) when just across from me I espied some unfortunate girl sporting a similar look, except that she was NOT a highly paid fashion model and her look was clearly not carefully constructed. I am nearly certain she actually took a curling iron to them before stepping out for all the world looking like little Laura Ingalls at her first square dance. You see ladies, bangs are a dangerous 'do, which sadly became all the rage in the 1980's. Even though many stylists recovered from their Aquanet-induced high's in the mid-90's, many women, I'm afraid, did not.

Basically the rule is this: If you are not going to spend at least an hour a day armed with a dozen over-priced hair products and professional equipment, you do not need to have bangs. Regular folks just can't be trusted to style their hair correctly on a daily basis, so the trendy locks that fell so sexily over their lashes when they left the salon are pinned back with a head band two days later. Understand that you are not Heidi Klum and any attempt to attain the blunt-cut Euro Bang will end in disaster. Whatever you do, DO NOT allow yourself to be talked into cutting said bangs into the hair you have so painstakingly grown out by a well-intentioned stylist and a mean-spirited friend (whose main goal in life is to make you look ridiculous for spite). Not that I'm speaking from personal experience of course.

Notice that many of the women in Hollywood today have forgone the bangs for the long layered look, which requires significantly less effort on the part of the wearer and prevents ugly scenes, like the one I observed at the bar, from ever happening to you!